UNIVERSE MUSIC

UNIVERSE MUSIC By David Allen The music of the universe called to the astronauts and it scared them. They were on the dark side of the moon, which blocked the noises of Earth, when the whistling began.

The sound lasted for an hour, then the spacecraft sighted Earth. The astronauts gave relieved sighs when the whistling was drowned out by the multitudinous transmissions from Earth. The astronauts decided to keep the space music to themselves. No one would have believed them, they reasoned. And it could jeopardize future missions.

“Should we tell them about it?” One asked his fellow spacemen. “I think we should think about it,” another answered. And their story went untold for more than four decades.

No one realized the music was always there. It was just blocked by the cacophonous racket from Earth.